Abstract This paper proposes a typology of compositionality as manifest in human language and animal communication. At the heart is distinction between bare compositionality, which meaning complex expression determined solely by meanings its constituents, constructional constituents also various aspects structure. Bare may be observed well communication systems, including primates birds. Archit...

abstractthe role of sexual – self schema and body imag on women sexual function introduction: the aime of the present study is to investigate the role of sexual self-schema and body image on sexual function of married female nurses....... method: statistical population of the present study consist of all married female nurses of tehran government hospitals. from which 200 individuals were selec...

Abstract This paper analyzes symmetric NPN constructions (e.g., day to day, face face, step by ) qualitatively and quantitatively examining data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, Mark. 2008–. The (COCA): 570 million words, 1990–present. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ ). constructions’ frequency productivity, as well their semantics extension potential (i.e., modification, c...

This dissertation has been completed and written independently without external assistance. Furthermore, the PhD thesis has never been submitted as a dissertation in this or a similar form to this or any other domestic or foreign institutions of higher learning. The " Guidelines for Good Scientific Practice " (Leitlinien guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis und Grundsätze für das Verfahren bei vermu...

the purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of group schema therapy approach for b category personality disorders score adjustment in substance dependent individuals. the present study was performed on individuals under maintenance treatment with methadone in shiraz public centers. sample group included 30 persons who were under treatment. instruments used included: clinical inte...

Much of the literature studying on-line sentence comprehension focuses on the contributions of individual lexical items, with specific interest in verbs. One aspect of sentence meaning that has been claimed to be rooted in verb representation is event structure. There is a growing body of evidence supporting the claim that the verb is not the sole contributor of event structure, but the syntact...

The introduction of the idea of Business Process Re-engineering in the late 1980’s has resulted in an explosion of the literature. In practice the success rates of re-engineering projects is low since the majority of the approaches are founded on a functional understanding of business systems. To be really effective however, business system transformation needs to be founded in a constructional...

In this paper we investigate the factors conditioning a morphological alternation on verbal heads in Lai. We show that this alternation eludes a simple characterization and instead exhibits a many-to-many form–function mapping. We will further show that the facts can be given a straightforward analysis in terms of default conditions based on valence and polarity, together with various construct...